I can't speak for everyone, but that has not happened to me. I still aww over nearly every puppy. I have a weird lack of reaction to little dogs with bulgy eyes, like chihuahuas, but everything else gets a squee. Even non-popular animals like bats and rodents.

Percy has a girl he likes....I can't remember the outcome.

Nothing says every day, girl next door, like Clary Fray...who lives in Brooklyn and wants to be an artist. Just like all of us do.

I really miss UK chemist prices. I think it was £6.75 for all my prescription drugs.

It wasn't on twitter...it was in private texts to her that she then gave to a gossip website...

I don't get it either. Actually, I think they sound disgusting. I don't really like donuts though, so I'm not the target demographic.

I consider weight loss easy for 2 groups of people—those who don't have to worry about their weight, and those who work hard to lose weight and then see the results. But I'm one of the third group—those who work hard and see very little in the way of results. People from groups 1 and 2 have a hard time accepting…

No fish oils....not for a lacto-ovo vegetarian like me.

I said in my original comment that it was entirely within my control. But the point is that for me to be within the ideal weight range, I would have to focus my entire life on losing weight. I already focus a lot of energy on it, just to stay this close to the ideal weight range. I never said I wasn't in control,…

I wasn't purporting to have the perfect diet, but I was pointing out that I do not eat the junk food the OP talked about in his comment. I struggle to get enough protein, being a vegetarian, but I work on it constantly.

I hit 200 lbs when I was 25. I'm 15 lbs overweight now. Was I bedridden at 200? No. But I had to make huge changes to get to a healthy weight again, and that was the first time in my life I had ever been overweight. Since then, I consider myself part of the 'demographic'.

And my objecting to your need to tell me how to handle my personal fitness...that proves I am using weight as padding? Explain that please.

Yes, clearly I'd lose a ton of weight if only I was more polite. That's the missing thing in between my cardio and my diet. Thanks so much. You're a gem.

I'm 15 lbs overweight because I do all of the things I do to try to stay in shape. If I didn't do those things, I'd be 100 lbs overweight.

I run 45 minutes, 3x per week. I do yoga for 90 minutes a week and strength training 2-3x per week. I don't eat fast food, don't eat meat, don't drink soda or alcohol. I walk everywhere, take the stairs instead of the elevator, get a carrier basket at the supermarket instead of a pushcart. 90% of what I eat is…

That's true in theory, but there have been tons of scientific studies about weight loss and we still don't have definitive answers about the best way to do it. That's because there are a million different factors that affect how and when individual people lose weight.

Yeah, I get how the rule works in theory. Just like few and less. But I just ...can't bring myself to care. I don't think this was something I was ever taught in school, and maybe I'm too old and too tired to take in new grammar rules now. I flatly refuse to give up the passive voice. If I was hit by a truck, I…

Yeah this is one of those supposed grammatical rules that I just don't understand and can't be bothered with. If the meaning is clear, then why bother with the needless distinctions? I mean, I'm all for using correct grammar, don't get me wrong. I never use it's when I mean its or you're when I mean your.

You might have a point. We Americans are more...optimistic for sure. And I think there's less schadenfreude in our comedy. Maybe it's easy to imagine that's because we're less intelligent/sophisticated. Even if it's not really true. Both nations have a large amount of morons.

Agreed. And even shows like Faulty Towers, which are great, are not reliant upon irony or dry sophisticated humor. Half of it is John Cleese running around trying not to mention the war to Germans or hiding from his wife. It's very slapstick.